Original baddy, alternate image after we played him at the table. It's not often I get to channel Tim Curry at the table, maybe my next bigbad will be based on Pennywise?
The voice for one of my big bads in my current D&D campaign is roughly based on Dr. Frank-N-Furter. So, of course I had to watch Curry a couple of times: https://youtu.be/JWoYy4Ah81s?si=OaCb7Ky5LjR4r1sX
The next recommendation was White and Nerdy, which I couldn’t resist. 2 things from watching it. I was reminded of @jamesdempsey (who also makes me smile) and, I’ve always laughed because I don’t know JavaScript or Klingon, but this time I noticed ‘I do vector calc just for fun’ and I realized this song is about ME!?
The Rocky Horror Picture Show "Sweet Transvestite" (1975) - (4K)
Woke up early with sinus headache, bummer. Went into my office started taking care of some random bs I can do with a headache (training). My 15yo startles me with a hello, says I have no school today and I'd rather be developing than sleeping :) He is building a game in Unity. Not good health wise, but so very cool. Takes me back to making a game on my Commodore 64 when I was 16. So much fun to get sucked into 'the zone'
Something else that the Claude Code revolution reminds me of... way back in the day I worked with a gray-beard. He didn't believe in the standard C library, it was slow and stupid and too generic. So he wrote his own bespoke strcmp. It was perfect, and fast, and beautifully elegant. But, I used the std lib and built an entire UI, he had a function. Some days I feel like the gray beard, I'm constantly reminding myself not to be that guy...
Now that FB owns Molt or whatever they are one step closer to all of FB being bots talking to each other with no actual people. I wonder how long advertisers will continue to pay for a hell-scape of AI slop entertaining and engaging AI bots?
I don't often engage with spammer texts but when I do I say completely ridiculous stuff just to see what happens and how long they will stay engaged.
me to Claude: prefer correctness tests to completion tests i.e. count > 4 should not be in an assertion instead count == 6 should be.
Claude: okie dokie boss
some time later, me to Claude, I don't trust that implementation, could you evaluate the tests?
Claude: the tests are mostly vacuous count > 0, should I replace them with correctness assertions?
me: going all YosimiteSam on Claude... $@%^! yes, and don't ever write tests like that again
Claude: okie dokie boss
The scary and beautiful thing about AI is it's going to make a lot of stuff become "I can use it, but I have no idea how it works". Many more people drive cars and have no idea what happens when they press on the accelerator, I mean none at all, than know anything about it. I think that is good. Most of us go to the grocery and get food with no clue what is required to get it there. Back when the first market opened there were prob old farts cursing that people didn't know where food came from.
More Claude fun, try to get it to implement sweep line triangulation. It has worked its way into a deep hole of going around and around twice now. I'm guessing I need a phd in prompt engineering to get this tech to do something 'hard'.
Claude only understands words so it optimizes unit tests to produce words. I have to constantly ask it to use assertions instead, it dutifully adds assertions amidst a huge number of print statements. It makes the likely hood of me looking at the logs very small because they are so insanely verbose, because Claude only understands words (or tokens to be more precise). Words are a lousy way to understand and debug programs...
